Hello there,
I’m encountering a strange issue with ImageMagick, as it has made itself the default document reader for PDF files, preventing me from setting another application as the default. I’ve uninstalled it from my system, yet it still remains, and I'm unable to assign a different app for opening PDF files; it feels really frustrating.
Looks like very similar to this other thread, please have a look:
As you can see, it should be easy enough going through Properties -> Open With:
If this doesn't work, however, checkout the other thread that is linked where you can make the file association manually. Although I don't think this should be necessary in this case.
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The issue is that I tried this method, yet ImageMagick remains unchanged! I've removed it from the system, but it still refuses to disappear.
I'm not sure what occurred, but when I looked for ImageMagick on my system, the terminal couldn't locate it using the 'whereis' command. However, there was a version installed on my system that I deleted through the Gnome Store, and that resolved the issue.
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That may be because Imagemagick is installed as a meta-package. That is, there is no command called "imagemagick" but various tools that are part of it, such as "convert" or "identify". Using apt remove imagemagick only removes this package, but using apt remove imagemagick* does the job:
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Thank you, I found some extra packages in there... I have removed those with * at the end.
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